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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Version 4 Send Area: #9 — Connection and Device management

April 5, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff

silhouette machine connection

Up to this point in this series, we’ve discussed choices you make to get set up to cut. We’re going to shift now and get into the mechanics of starting and managing the cut job. In the next set of lessons, we’re going to cover machine connection, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: auto-release, Business Edition, connection, connections, could not connect, default cutter, ready, release, send, sleep, syncing

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Version 4 Send Area: #8 — How Text or Object on Path affect cut style

March 9, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff

silhouette curve word

You may not know this, but in Silhouette Studio you can make words go around a shape. That’s called Text on Path. New in version 4, you can also take a shape and use Object on Path to create duplicates of that shape around the contours of another … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: clip art, control point, curve text, curve word, cut, cut preview, cut settings, cut view, jpg, no cut, object on path, photo, photograph, png, point, raster, replicate, send, Text, text on path, vector

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Version 4 Send Area: #6 — Cut Order

March 4, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff

Today’s lesson is about another way to add flexibility in your cut job when you use the advanced cut mode — cut order. Cut order is the sequence in which the machine cuts the shapes in your project. When you cut by line color, fill color or layer, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: action, action by, color, cut order, cut settings, Fill, layer, line, pauses, send, Sketch, Sketch pen

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Version 4 Send Area: #5 — Action by: Line, Fill or Layer

March 2, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff

silhouette cut by fill color

Now that you know the basics of the Send area, it’s time to get into advanced options with Action by: Line, Fill or Layer (Advanced Cut Mode in version 3). In these modes, you choose your cut settings for each shape based on its line color, its fill … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: action, action by, auto weld, color, Compound Path, cut, cut preview, cut settings, cut view, Designer Edition, Fill, Fill Color, gradient, grouping, layer, layers, line, line color, no cut, pattern, send, Sketch, Sketch pen, tool, weld

Everything you ever wanted to know about the Version 4 Send Area: #1 — Where to start

February 26, 2018 By Cindy Eckhoff

silhouette send cut settings

Are you ever overwhelmed when you look at all the options in the version 4 Send area of the Silhouette Studio software? It can be intimidating, especially for a beginner. I’ve created this series of tutorials to give you ALL the information you need. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: cut, cut preview, cut settings, cut view, send, send to silhouette, tool, tool holder, version 4

Successful Beginner Projects: #3 Initial Gift Tag

November 7, 2017 By Cindy Eckhoff

beginner cameo project

In today’s Successful Beginner Project, we’ll learn to add text, draw a simple shape, create an offset and a compound path, use more scale and align features, and cut by fill color. This tag is great for any time, but especially Christmas. By putting … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Basic Membership Tagged With: action by fill, Align, beginner, cardstock, christmas, circle, Compound Path, cut by color, cut preview, cut settings, draw, font, group, letter size, lock aspect ratio, material, offset, order, scale, send, tag, Text

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